Author Ian Whybrow visits primary school to help raise money for children's charity

Award-winning children’s author Ian Whybrow visited St Michael’s Church of
England primary school in St Albans, Herts to help the school children raise
money for amputee children in the developing world.

Children from St Michaels Primary School in St Albans listening to the children's author Ian WhybrowPhoto: Heathcliff O'Malley

By Telegraph Reporter

1:54PM GMT 23 Nov 2011

Mr Whybrow has written over 100 books for children, which have been translated into 27 languages, including the popular Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaurs series. He read some of his books to the chidren, and answered questions.

He was helping to raise money for Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope, a charity set up by Sarah Hope in memory of her mother who was killed in a bus crash in 2007 in south London to raise money for amputee children in the developing world.

Mrs Hope was seriously injured in the same accident and her daughter Pollyanna, then aged two, had her leg amputated when the bus hit them while they were on the pavement.

Her husband Christopher Hope, The Daily Telegraph’s senior political correspondent, has since written several articles about the effects of the crash, prompting Telegraph readers to raise thousands of pounds for charity.

Mr Whybrow gave his time for free to help the charity and said he had found it “exhilarating to be part of the experience”.

He added: "I am full of admiration for the Hope family who have harnessed the grief and anger and pain that sticks around when people have to endure a shattering tragedy.

“One feels lit up by their crackling energy and their determination to relieve the misery of others less capable of coping.I have been particularly taken by the idea of getting schoolchildren to think about ways in which they can do something make a difference.”

For more information about the charity go to www.elizabethslegacyofhope.org